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In this episode, I chat with Tony Chen, Partner at Verdant Frontiers and Co-Founder of Kinyungu Ventures, about his journey to Africa-focused investing, how conducting research altered his fund launch strategy, what lessons he learned from the research, and his plans for the future.
The Trajectory Africa’s first principles series was inspired by a desire to understand the drivers and assumptions underlying investable opportunities in key sectors hypothesized to be the engine of African VC, starting with fintech.
Across 11 episodes, we explored the opportunities for, and...
Published 09/17/24
In Episode 1 of this series, Abraham Augustine, Research Partner of trendsAf and Comms and Programs Lead at Norrsken warned against “long arm, no mouth” syndrome and the risks of digitalizing one part of a system (distributed solar energy, for example) without considering where the barriers and...
Published 08/23/24